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A New Energy Hub in Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University is building a renewable energy lab in Baltimore’s Remington Neighborhood that will focus on energy transition innovations, including carbon management, energy storage, wind power, and grid optimization.

Awards and Honors

Johns Hopkins University’s faculty achievements shine with Lauren Gardner winning the Future Insight Prize from Merck, a global life sciences conglomerate based in Germany.

A Boost for Cancer Moonshot

A Johns Hopkins engineering-led team has been awarded $20.9 million over five years to enhance surgical capabilities to treat cancer.

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Igniting Passion for STEM

For 20 years, the Whiting School’s Center for Educational Outreach (CEO) has focused on igniting and deepening a passion for STEM in pre-K–12 students and teachers, while strengthening Johns Hopkins Engineering’s connections in the Baltimore community.

Powering Through the Freeze

Researchers at the Whiting School and JHU’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are developing lithium-ion batteries capable of operating in some of the world’s coldest environments.

‘Jailbreaks’ Threaten Low-Resource Languages

The large language models (LLMS) that power many popular text-based artificial intelligence applications are vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, during which a user enters a malicious prompt to bypass an application’s guardrails to trick it into making inappropriate or harmful content.

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Road Warriors

Air pollutants have met their match in environmental scientist Peter DeCarlo and his lab on wheels.

Vision Envisioned

Bestowing machines with the ability to perceive the physical world as humans do has been a careerlong mission of Alan Yuille, a pioneer in the field of computer vision.

Getting Real

Students from JHU’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) traveled to India to gain an immersive knowledge of the challenges facing India’s rural and urban clinicians and community health workers.

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The Heart of the Matter

Jooyoung Ryu, a third-year student majoring in computer science, is using his Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award to train a machine learning model to better distinguish between stress cardiomyopathy and other acute cardiac syndromes.

Helping Maryland Reach Its Climate Goals

Sreyas Chintapalli, a PhD candidate, is helping Maryland’s state leaders implement some of the country’s most ambitious climate initiatives.

Testing the Water

Noor Hamdan explored the impact that recreational activities, specifically floating down a river on an inner tube, might have on water quality.

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Event Planning Made Easy

Nowadays uses artificial intelligence to automate event planning challenges in a clean, modern interface for easier decision-making.

Michael Bloomberg Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Biden honored Bloomberg for revolutionizing the financial information industry and for transforming the state of education, the environment, public health, and the arts in New York City as its mayor from January 2002 to December 2013.

On a Mission to Cure Cancer

Adrian Johnston founded DUA, an early-stage startup that shows early promise for treating solid tumors like breast, lung, and stomach cancers, among others.

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From The Dean

From the Dean: Winter 2025

The start of a new academic year is always exciting, but this fall—a time when AI and data science underpin so many of our endeavors—is particularly energizing.

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